CIENEGUILLA, GALISTEO, CERRILLOS, GOLDEN
Sat, Jun 29
|Galisteo
Time & Location
Jun 29, 2024, 10:00 AM
Galisteo, Galisteo, NM 87540, USA
About the event
We first visit the Capilla de San Antonio de La Cieneguilla, which was built as a private votive chapel around 1820 by Pablo Mora and Ana María Herrera Mora on their Spanish land grant farm. Our visit is hosted by descendants Larie Mora and Steve Mora and is guided by former mayordomo José L. Villegas, Sr. We also briefly visit the adjacent La Cieneguilla Pueblo archeological site; information on the site is and .herehere
The tour after Cieneguilla is guided by the parish pastor, Father Adrian Sisneros, with a first stop at Nuestra Señora de los Remedios in Galisteo, built in 1884. Among the many attributes of the church’s unique and intriguing interior are two well-preserved paintings on elk or buffalo hide, one of which is dated 1602.
From Galisteo we drive twenty minutes to St. Joseph in Los Cerrillos, which has a coved tin ceiling, stained glass, modern statuary,…